Sunday, July 17, 2005

Concept type

Your concepts have types: word, phrase, simple concept and periheral device. What is a logic behind having these types? In fact "peripheral device" is not just one type. There could be many peripheral devices. Peripheral device is a subset of hardcoded unitsConcept can be of any hardcoded unit type.Moreover, one hardcoded unit can be related to concepts of several types. For example: text parser has direct relations with concept-words and concept-phrases. (Please don't confuse these "direct relations" with relations in the main memory). Ok, now we see that strong AI has many concept types. How many? As many as AI software developer code in hardcoded units. 5-10 concept types is a good start for strong AI prototype. 100 concept types is probably good number for real life strong AI. 1000 concept types is probably too many.

So, what is a "concept type"? Concept type is just a reference from concept to hardcoded unit. Concept type is a reference from concept to real world through a hardcoded unit.

What concept types shold be added to strong AI?If AI developer feels that concept type XYZ is useful for strong AI...and if the AI developer can code this XYZ concept type in hardcoded unit...and if this functionality is not implemented in other hardcoded unit yet...and the main memory structure doesn't have to be modified to accomodate this new concept type...then the developer may add this XYZ concept type to strong AI.

What concept types should not be added?- I feel that such concept types as "verb" and "noun" should not be added, because there is no clear algorithm to distinguish between verbs and nouns.- I feel that "property concept type" should not be used, because "property concept type" is already covered by "cause-effect relationships" and because implementation of property type concepts will make main memory structure more complex.